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Unfortunately I do not have a timeframe. I do not have the engineering expertise, I am only financing this project to two well experienced engineers I hired to tackle the job. As far as implementation, it will have to be powered. My device specifically would mount off-camera, similar to a monitor/field recorder, or directly to the hotshoe.

Maybe mount underneath the camera (utilize the tripod plate hole) and have another threaded hole on the bottom for actual tripod plate use? Or is the device going to be powered by the camera hot shoe ?




Anyone else out here still working on developments or have most of these hit a wall ?

Went with 1TB USB 3.0 drive for immediate DL, and USB 3.0 drive dock with 2 x 4TB bare drives for backup.  It all went fairly smoothly.

I did enjoy your last creation, links to the items you used in this post?

Kinda, but you also have Toshiba 1055X.

It also doesn't seem to last. Reading around here and on different forums cards are losing these speeds after a short amount of time/stress and they are also going corrupt or just plain dead.

Some people are also going through 2 or 3 cards to get 1 good one. Others are lucky and get a good one right off the bat. I wouldn't touch them if one was free but thats just me.

There are reliable cards out there but they're expensive and only equally as fast. IMO are best option is what is under devolopment by the DEVs or a hardware option (SSD)

I haven't seen any recent developments for hardware options. I hope I'm mistaken, but didn't that idea end up getting floored due to some impassable obstacles?

Believe me I would love to have some sort of SSD that could mount underneath my camera.

As for Komputerbay I don't think they would care. There is a reason why they are much cheaper than the rest of the brands....

The big name brands seem to be really close to me.

That stinks because if I'm not mistaken the lottery-winner Komputerbays are scoring highest in write speeds. There *needs* to be a card that guarantees these write speeds, even if they cost an arm and a leg.

Since a lot of the continuous 60fps results in ~1600x900 resolutions after being unsqueezed, what needs to be done in say premiere pro to fit this into a 1080p sequence

50/60fps is locked to 720p with the standard canon software. ML allows the camera to record RAW still frames at a higher rate. Its actually recording 50 still RAW photos a second at 1920 x 1080 instead of the full still photo resolution.

The 1000x cards can only record for 4-5 seconds before the camera buffer is full at 50fps. maybe with faster cards in the future this won't be a problem.

Thank you for the knowledge. What's your card benchmarking at?

It's really disheartening to know that I'm going to have to gamble with Komputerbay cards until I get one that writes above 100mbs. Ideally I'd keep playing until I got one that peaked at 120mbs.

Has Komputerbay or any of the other manufacturers been able to sort out what exactly causes the differences in write speeds?

The moment someone comes along and provides a card that GUARANTEES good write speeds I will be violently throwing my money in their faces.

I'm willing to pay decent change to get a guaranteed good write speed.

Someone lay this out to me like I'm a 5th grader. Is this card guaranteed to be faster than the lottery of 64gb 1000x cards everyones been playing with? I'm not entirely interested in ordering/returning cards until I get one that writes fast enough. Has this card sorted that out?

Am I reading this funny or are some of you actually getting 50-60fps continuous without the buffer stopping ?

Someone tell me why I'm dreaming because if this is the case I have no interest in upgrading my camera to any other system ever

Still lots to do on the 5DMK3 as far as the h264 encoder's concerned. Some interesting results Im testing.

TELL ME MORE@!

Please, for everyones sake people, don't come in here and ask "when can we expect this for <insert canon model here>"

The 5dmkiii is a highly capable camera and with it's hardware it makes sense that many of these new developments are coming forward on this platform. I, myself, moved on from my 550d to the 5dmkiii because of the future course of Magic Lantern developments.

This is an insane development to come in the midst of all the raw development. So much new stuff to go forward with, I'd imagine it's going to be quite some time before a stable release is on the horizon

Any new developments?

I thought the higher framerates like 60fps were limited to 720p? Can someone explain to me like I'm a fifth grader how this works?

And is the 4-5 second clip length a limitation of the KomputerBay card that you have?

As a 5dmkiii owner.... this is fine with me

Is anyone using ML Raw religiously enough to necessitate one of these in the field? How's the battery life on these things?

I was going to wait for the CF -> some sort of storage developments, but this makes me want to jump on starting to shoot raw now

this is spectacular and once there are improvements in storage for raw video this will completely eliminate my desire for 1080p 60fps on the mkiii. The 720 looks incredible in raw.

This is exciting because this could potentially eliminate my insatiable want for 1080p h264 60fps. The 720 60fps raw should be ideal as far as quality goes (hopefully there's a solution for the stretch. devs, halp!). Not too butthurt about moire at 720.

Hope devs are taking a good look at this. Anyone have any video samples up ? Anyone tried to scale it to 1080 or would that bastardize the picture too much?

I wonder if the different video editing programs stretch differently. OP, what program did you use to stretch the images you included?

Also what is the best method of "re-stretching" the picture? Complete that step in whatever video editing suite you use (Avid, PP, FCPX) ?

So this thing can do 60fps raw? Which means there's no reason it shouldn't be able to do regular ol' H.264 1080p @ 60fps... right? Or am I missing something and this is already achievable with ML?

Thank you for the writeup!